Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Gets Installed in NYC

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 14: Workers prepare the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree before standing it up on November 14, 2012 in New York City. The tree, an 80-year old Norway Spruce, was donated by Joe Balku of Flanders, New Jersey. It weighs approximately 10 tons, measures 80 feet tall and is 50 feet in diameter. The official tree-lighting ceremony will be Wednesday, November 28. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

10-Ton Norway Spruce Becomes Rockefeller Center's Christmas Tree

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 14: Joe Balku, who donated the tree, drives a stake into the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree before workers stood it up on November 14, 2012 in New York City. The tree, an 80-year old Norway Spruce, was donated Balku of Flanders, New Jersey. It weighs approximately 10 tons, measures 80 feet tall and is 50 feet in diameter. The official tree-lighting ceremony will be Wednesday, November 28. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

10-Ton Norway Spruce Becomes Rockefeller Center's Christmas Tree

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 14: Workers prepare the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree before standing it up on November 14, 2012 in New York City. The tree, an 80-year old Norway Spruce, was donated by Joe Balku of Flanders, New Jersey. It weighs approximately 10 tons, measures 80 feet tall and is 50 feet in diameter. The official tree-lighting ceremony will be Wednesday, November 28. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

10-Ton Norway Spruce Becomes Rockefeller Center's Christmas Tree

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 14: Workers prepare the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree before standing it up on November 14, 2012 in New York City. The tree, an 80-year old Norway Spruce, was donated by Joe Balku of Flanders, New Jersey. It weighs approximately 10 tons, measures 80 feet tall and is 50 feet in diameter. The official tree-lighting ceremony will be Wednesday, November 28. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

10-Ton Norway Spruce Becomes Rockefeller Center's Christmas Tree

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 14: People watch as the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is raised into position on November 14, 2012 in New York City. The tree, an 80-year old Norway Spruce, was donated by Joe Balku of Flanders, New Jersey. It weighs approximately 10 tons, measures 80 feet tall and is 50 feet in diameter. The official tree-lighting ceremony will be Wednesday, November 28. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

10-Ton Norway Spruce Becomes Rockefeller Center's Christmas Tree

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 14: Workers prepare the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree before standing it up on November 14, 2012 in New York City. The tree, an 80-year old Norway Spruce, was donated by Joe Balku of Flanders, New Jersey. It weighs approximately 10 tons, measures 80 feet tall and is 50 feet in diameter. The official tree-lighting ceremony will be Wednesday, November 28. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

10-Ton Norway Spruce Becomes Rockefeller Center's Christmas Tree

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 14: People watch as the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is about to be raised into position on November 14, 2012 in New York City. The tree, an 80-year old Norway Spruce, was donated by Joe Balku of Flanders, New Jersey. It weighs approximately 10 tons, measures 80 feet tall and is 50 feet in diameter. The official tree-lighting ceremony will be Wednesday, November 28. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

10-Ton Norway Spruce Becomes Rockefeller Center's Christmas Tree

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 14: Workers prepare the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree before standing it up on November 14, 2012 in New York City. The tree, an 80-year old Norway Spruce, was donated by Joe Balku of Flanders, New Jersey. It weighs approximately 10 tons, measures 80 feet tall and is 50 feet in diameter. The official tree-lighting ceremony will be Wednesday, November 28. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Arrives In Plaza

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 11: People watch the raising of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree on November 11, 2011 in New York City. This year's tree is a 74-foot Norway Spruce and was cut down November 9 in Mifflinville, Pennsylvania and then moved to Manhattan on a flatbed trailer. The lighting of the tree is the traditional start to the holiday season in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Arrives In Plaza

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 11: People watch the raising of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree on November 11, 2011 in New York City. This year's tree is a 74-foot Norway Spruce and was cut down November 9 in Mifflinville, Pennsylvania and then moved to Manhattan on a flatbed trailer. The lighting of the tree is the traditional start to the holiday season in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Arrives In Plaza

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 11: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg helps to bang a stake into the base of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree on November 11, 2011 in New York City. This year's tree is a 74-foot Norway Spruce and was cut down November 9 in Mifflinville, Pennsylvania and then moved to Manhattan on a flatbed trailer. The lighting of the tree is the traditional start to the holiday season in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Arrives In Plaza

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 11: Workers raise the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree on November 11, 2011 in New York City. This year's tree is a 74-foot Norway Spruce and was cut down November 9 in Mifflinville, Pennsylvania and then moved to Manhattan on a flatbed trailer. The lighting of the tree is the traditional start to the holiday season in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Arrives In Plaza

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 11: Workers raise the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree on November 11, 2011 in New York City. This year's tree is a 74-foot Norway Spruce and was cut down November 9 in Mifflinville, Pennsylvania and then moved to Manhattan on a flatbed trailer. The lighting of the tree is the traditional start to the holiday season in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Rockefeller Center's Christmas Tree Erected

NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 12: Workers install the new Rockefeller Center Christmas tree November 12, 2010 in New York City. Veteran FDNY firefighter Peter Acton, who worked at Ground Zero, donated the 12-ton, 74-foot Norway spruce which was cut down at his Mahopac, New York home. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Arrives in New York City

NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 14: Workers prepare to hoist this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree into place November 14, 2008 in New York City. The 72-foot (22 meter) tall Norway spruce comes this year from Hamilton, New Jersey, where it was planted nearly 80 years ago. The Christmas tree has been an annual ritual in midtown Manhattan since the origins of Rockefeller Center in the 1930s. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Arrives in New York City

NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 14: People watch as workers prepare to hoist this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree into place November 14, 2008 in New York City. The 72-foot (22 meter) tall Norway spruce comes this year from Hamilton, New Jersey, where it was planted nearly 80 years ago. The Christmas tree has been an annual ritual in midtown Manhattan since the origins of Rockefeller Center in the 1930s. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Christmas Tree Installed At Rockefeller Center

NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 10: People watch as the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is hoisted into place November 10, 2006 in New York City. The 88-foot tall tree was driven from Ridgefield, Connecticut earlier in the day. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)